Interval estimation for the difference between independent proportions: Comparison of eleven methods

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 873-890

  Newcombe, Robert G ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EVALUATION STUDIES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; PROBABILITY;

EID: 0032580377     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19980430)17:8<873::AID-SIM779>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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